Well I didn't update for a while. Lost a ton of music related stuff (instruments, etc) due to a fire, that sucked. Will write more about that at some point, maybe, though also maybe will try to forget heh.

What I'm really posting here is to claim a momentary victory (it won't last long no doubt) against the hoards of scrapers effectively DDoSing web sites out there. Our forums would have 100,000+ "guest" users "browsing," causing all kinds of performance issues. Last night and today, added some stuff requiring some computation via javascript and a little bit of user interaction to authenticate the guest user as not-a-bot, and now we have a few hundred. What a mess the internet is. :/ Sigh.